[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 215 (Tuesday, November 7, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 56143]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-27560]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of South Carolina, et al.; Notice of Consolidated 
Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

    This is a decision consolidated pursuant to Section 6(c) of the 
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 
(Pub. L. 89-651, 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301). Related records can be 
viewed between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Room 4211, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments described below, 
for such purposes as each is intended to be used, is being manufactured 
in the United States.
    Docket Number: 95-036. Applicant: University of South Carolina, 
Columbia, SC 29208. Instrument: ICP Mass Spectrometer, Model ELEMENT. 
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 
60 FR 29827, June 6, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: 
High resolution to 0.02 AMU to provide (1) separation of Fe Isotopes 
from ArO interferences and (2) resolution of interferences from 
Polatomic Species such as 40Ar16O. Advice Received From: 
National Institutes of Health, September 13, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-037. Applicant: University of Miami, Coral 
Gables, FL 33145. Instrument: L-B Film Deposition Apparatus with 
Ellipsometric Microscope. Manufacturer: Nippon Laser & Electronics 
Lab., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 29827, June 6, 1995. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a moving-wall though design 
and an ellipsometric microscope using polarizers working at the 
Brewster angle for study of the morphology of monolayer surfactants. 
Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, September 13, 
1995.
    Docket Number: 95-038. Applicant: University of California, 
Berkeley, CA 94720-3140. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer. Manufacturer: 
Europa Scientific Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 60 
FR 31144, June 13, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) 
120 deg. extended geometry magnetic sector analyzer (2) external 
precision of 0.1 per mil for 13C and 0.3 per mil for 15N and (3) 
simultaneous measurement of CO2 and N2. Advice Received From: 
National Institutes of Health, September 13, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-045. Applicant: The Scripps Research Institute, 
La Jolla, CA 92037. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer System, Model API 
100. Manufacturer: PE Sciex, Canada. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 
33190, June 27, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) 
curtain gas to reduce sample contamination, (2) mass range to 3000 m/z 
and (3) operation of the care system at room temperature. Advice 
Received From: National Institutes of Health, September 14, 1995.
    National Institutes of Health that (1) the capabilities of each of 
the foreign instruments described above are pertinent to each 
applicant's intended purpose and (2) they know of no domestic 
instrument or apparatus of equivalent scientific value for the intended 
use of each instrument.
    We know of no other instrument or apparatus being manufactured in 
the United States which is of equivalent scientific value to any of the 
foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff
[FR Doc. 95-27560 Filed 11-6-95; 8:45 am]
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